David Walker

• Chart of the week - EM funding shortfalls for required climate investments, 2016-2030

  07 January 2022

  Emerging markets are going to need insurers, and badly, to meet their climate investment requirements

• Hong Kong regulator introduces hybrid product to close HK$6.9trn 'mortality gap'

  06 January 2022

  Protection-linked plans hoped to serve customers and lifers alike

• COMMENT - Was one vital ingredient missing in EIOPA's liquidity stress test?

  05 January 2022

  EIOPA business-liquidity stress test for insurers needed very illiquid markets

• CIOs prove their worth in EIOPA's industry liquidity stress test

  05 January 2022

  Only 'management actions' kept net liquidity positions positive in simulated 're-run' of Q1 2020

• Hong Kong's regulator invites lifers to adopt RBC early

  04 January 2022

  Life firm practitioners say RBC is already guiding investment decisions

• Chart of the year - Global insurers' 'Covid exposures' and other measures

  31 December 2021

  In the wash-up from Covid, we reflect on how things were, one year on

• AIA president says renewables key to helping Mainland economy thrive

  30 December 2021

  Underwriters put HK$270bn in bonds annually, "but not because we are getting a particularly good yield and certainly not a good spread"

• French underwriters axed nearly €1bn of coal exposure in 2020

  29 December 2021

  Divestments happened at fastest rate since at least 2015

• AMP agrees M&A for infrastructure outsourcing partner

  29 December 2021

  Wurttembergische, R&V and Gothaer among debt-investing clients of AMP Capital

• French and their equities

  29 December 2021

  They love it, but in small proportions